Naimah Jabali-Nash is a director and producer whose work has earned her five Emmy Awards, five PGA Awards and two Peabody Awards. Jabali-Nash is dedicated to telling stories that give marginalized groups a platform to be seen and heard, which is why she created Fearless Minds Productions to fearlessly push the boundaries of storytelling with […]
Max Lowe is an award winning, critically acclaimed filmmaker with projects having been featured at DOC NYC, Tribeca, SXSW and Cannes. His first feature doc Torn premiered at Telluride Film Festival and landed on Disney+ in the spring of 2022, and his newest work “”Camp Courage”” is streaming on Netflix. Max has found a niche […]
Laura Tomaselli is a filmmaker who believes in the power of storytelling. Lakota Nation Vs. United States, her most recent film, premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and has won multiple festival awards. The recipient of a Sundance Documentary Fund fellowship, Tomaselli also received a Cinema Eye Award Nomination for editing MLK/FBI, which was shortlisted for the 2021 […]
Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker whose feature documentary Q received support from IDA, TFI, and the Sundance Institute. Q won the Albert Maysles award for Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca and the Grand Jury Award for Best First Feature at Sheffield DocFest. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Jonna McKone is a producer and artist. She produced All Light, Everywhere (Hulu/Super LTD, Sundance Special Jury Award, 2021) and “Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” (Sundance, The New Yorker, 2023). Her photography, which explores land and memory, has been supported by the Center for Documentary Studies, Rubys Artist Grant, and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s […]
Joe Peeler directed Bad Press, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. In 2014, Joe edited the short documentary The Lion’s Mouth Opens, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Since then, his work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, FX, ESPN, Hulu […]
Jillian Schlesinger is best known for work on collaborative, youth-driven documentaries Maidentrip (2013 SXSW Audience Award) and Hummingbirds (2023 Berlinale Generation Grand Prix). Fellowships include Sundance/Women In Film, NBCU Original Voices, and Doc Society Co-Creation Cohort. Field of Vision, Ford Foundation, and SFFILM have supported Jillian’s work. She’s currently producing We Are Volcanoes and developing […]
Originally from South Korea, Jean Rheem is an editor and producer whose work has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, among others. Her recent films include Bad Press, which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival and Accepted, which received an Emmy Award Nomination. Currently, she is editing a feature documentary about Lee Soo-Man, the […]
Bethel’s editing, directing, and producing touch upon recurrent themes of geographic displacement, aging, intimacy, and art-making’s therapeutic potential. His credits include What We Leave Behind, Of Men and War, Acts of Love, Hummingbirds, So Late So Soon, “Blue Room,” and “Some Kind of Intimacy.” He teaches regularly and is available for free weekly feedback sessions with […]
Inaya Graciana Yusuf is an Indonesian-American artist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Oregon. Her most recent work as a picture editor includes Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Lucy and Desi, The Space Race, Rather, and Join or Die. She is currently directing and editing her feature documentary on Italian director and playwright, Armando Punzo and his prison […]